pastar
Portuguese, verb/pasˈta(ʁ)/
pastar is spelled P-A-S-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,304th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pastar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to graze (eat grass from a pasture)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “comer a erva de”.
What does pastar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to graze (eat grass from a pasture)
- 2
colloquialto idle, to laze around
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. comer a erva de 2. caminhar no pasto 3. apascentar, cuidar do gado que pasce 4. ir para longe; sair de perto
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pastar
- pasto first-person present singular
- pastei first-person preterite singular
- pastado participle past
- pastares infinitive second-person singular
- pastarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pastardes infinitive plural second-person
- pastarem infinitive plural third-person
- pastando gerund
- pastados masculine participle past
- pastada feminine participle past
- pastadas feminine participle past
- pastas indicative present second-person
- pasta indicative present singular
- pastamos first-person indicative plural
- pastais indicative plural present
- pastam indicative plural present
- pastava first-person imperfect indicative
- pastavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pastar?
- Brazil /pasˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pasˈta(h)]
- /pasˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pastar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pastar in Portuguese?
pastar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).